TripAdvisor Reviews Ranbanka Palace Jodhpur

Travel Blogs from Jodhpur

... weave gracefully and annoyingly in and out of, and amongst, the fearless and oblivious pedestrians. Two or three hours of this in the dark is tiring and once back at the haveli we fall soon asleep, serenaded by the Jodhpur lullaby - Hindu weddings, fireworks and distant chanting.

Dawn chorus, 5:30am: The call the prayer, freight train whistles, pigeons cooing outside the window, dogs barking, more Hindu weddings. We are on the road by 9am, but only as far as ...

... worse apparently, when they got home the women folk also gave them a going over for losing! Still, having retreated into his fort the chasing baddies could not penetrate at all, which is hardly surprising if you see the place. Well they tried a siege for a few months but that didn`t work because they had plenty of food and water inside and they would have been knackered just climbing the hill outside. So it seems that after a while ...

... make me fat. I've never had any manner of fortune type thing done before but whilst he started off jaw droppingly accurate (he told the chick who went in after me that working for a multi-national company was the best thing for her. She hadn't told him she did actually work for one!), he ended by telling me I would spawn two kids.

... could find to the hotel. Jodhpur, the Blue City... Oh where to begin?!!! What the guide book should say... 'stinking, rotting, filthy, hell hole' NOT 'visit Jodhpur the second largest city in Rajasthan with its beautiful fort overlooking...' Blah blah blah. whether it was due to the fact that I felt worse than ever with Neil closely following suit or the fact that I got headbutted by a cow ( seriously...and it hurt!) or saw several dead dogs by ...

... into sockets, and inches of dust. We'd been so lucky with our accommodation everywhere, but didn't expect this. Still our room was relatively clean and had a killer view out of our window direct to the fort, an enormous awe-inspiring structure built on solid rock, towering over the city and surrounded by enormous old city walls. As it got dark, it was lit up and 500 years ago, let alone now, it would have looked like the ...